0002-02note on "many large and small caves" and saltpeter at Teotihuacan, from Official Reports on the Towns of Tequizistlan, Tepechpan, . . . in 1580, translated by Zelia Nuttall, Papers of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 11(2)77. photocopy

0006-02CO2 Concentrations in Some Limestone Soils of the Eastern Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico, by Russell S. Harmon, abstract in Bulletin of the National Speleological Society 35(1)26, 1973. photocopy

0008-02Archaeological Cucurbitaceae from a Cave in Southern California, by Thomas Whitaker, Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 13:144-148, 1957. cave known as B.C.-100 or Loreto-1 to researchers bout 10 miles ESE of San Jos´de Comondú, Baja California. photocopy

0010-01Draft version of Sociedad Mexicana de Exploraciones Subterráneas Boletín 1, Exploraciones de 1980 en el área de "La Florida", Querétaro. Same content as the printed version of SMES Bol. 1, except no photos.

0012-08Archaeological Reconnaissance of Chinkulti, Chiapas, Mexico, by Stephan de Bordhegyi, Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University publication 26:119-134 1968. offprint

0013from file "Chiapas" from James Reddell (part)

0013-01selected pages from Tribes and Temples: A Record of the Expedition to Middle American Conducted by the Tulane University of Louisiana in 1925, vol 1. Zopo Cave, Tabasco (pages 154-158) and Yoxia site, Chiapas (pages 199-225). photocopy

0013-02selected pages from Tribes and Temples: A Record of the Expedition to Middle American Conducted by the Tulane University of Louisiana in 1925, vol 2. Ocosingo, Chiapas, area (pages 252-253, area map p 246), Agua Escondida, Chiapas (page 315),worship in cave at Chacalchib, (pp. 366-367), cave near Soconusco (pages 408-410), small cave near Hun Chabin (pages 417-418), Jacaltenango, Guatemala (pages 443-444), index of ruins in Tabasco and Chiapas (507-511), and bibliography for the entire book (pages 526-536). photocopy

0013-03Caving in Chiapas, by Peter Thompson, Canadian Caver 4(1)9-21 1972. El Pozeron, at Sumidero Las Margaritas east of Comitan; Cueva San Franciso at La Trinitaria (map); Grutas de Rancho Nuevo at San Cristobal de las Casas (map); El Suspiro pit near San Cristobal; caves near Tenejapa and San Felipe; El Chorreadero (map). photocopy

0017-04Structures of Xitle Volcano and the Lavas of the Pedregal de San Angel, Mexico, D. F., by Richard McGehee, abstract in program of South-Central Section of something, 1976, p 55. mentions lava tunnels, photocopy

0017-06Igneous Phenomena and Geologic Structure near Mapimí, by Quentin D. Singewald. offprint of part V of Evolution of the Coahuila Peninsula, Mexico, Bul. of the Geological Society of America 47:1153-1176. Durango.

0017-07Geology of the Cuarenta Mercury District, State of Durango, Mexico, by David Gallagher and Rafael Pérez Siliceo, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 946-F: 155-168, folded map in pocket. offprint

0019-06Origin of Solution Features in the Gypsum Cap Rock of a Salt Piapir, Parras Basin, Mexico, by John E. Edwards. may be a paper submitted to class at Univ. Texas, 1972. Cañón de Portrerrillos, Coahuila. one page photocopy

0020-01pages from The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky, edited by Timothy Flint, in Early Western Travels 1748-1846 18:378-379. Ponte-Dios, natural bridge near Molcaxac, Veracruz, on Rio Aquetoyac, "great cavern of Dante". photocopy

0020-02Retreat to Orizaba, by Bill Louch and John Fish, Canadian Caver 3:19-23 1970. resurgence cave near Tlilipan; caves at San Andrés Tenejapa: Sótano de las Tres Penurias (with map), Sótano de Milpa (map), Sótano de las Ranas (map); area map. all in Veracruz. photocopy

0020-03The Veracruz Earthquake of 28 August 1973, by H. M. Irvine, Bulletin of the New Zealand National Society for Earthquake Engineering 7(1):2-13 1974. photocopy

0020-04The Newly Discovered Cave of Atoyac (Mexico): A Contributio to the Stdy of Cave-development, by M. M. Allorge, Transactions of the Phildelphia Academy of Science 77:577. sumidero at Atoyac, Veracruz. photocopy

0029-03Quicksilver-Antimony Deposits of Huitzuco, Guerrero, Mexico, by James McAllister and David Hernandez Ortiz, US Geological Survey Bulletin 946-B:49-62 (out of 49-72) 1945. contains the geology part of the article. photocopy of offprint

0032-07The Cave of San Josecito, Mexico: New Discoveries of the Vertebrate Life of the Ice Age, by Chester Stock, Engineering and Science Monthly, September 1943. Nuevo León. photocopy of 6-page offprint.

0036-05mention that El Sótano, Querétaro, and Sótano de las Golondrinas, San Luis Potosí, are the first and third deepest pits in world, with profile sketch of El Sótano, in Explorer, July 1973, p 99-100. photocopy

0036-06The Coffin Window, anon., Explorer, June 1974:79?,80. Description of climb to window overlooking floor of Sótano de las Golondrinas, San Luis Potosí. also sketch of wall of pit. photocopy

0037-01Preliminary Results on the Groundwater Geochemistry of the Sierra de El Abra Region, North Central Mexico, by John Fish and William Russell, Bulletin of the National Speleological Society 34(3)111-113 1972. San Luis Potosí. photocopy

0038-06Expedition into Mexico by St. M. U. Speleologists. Sierra de El Abra area, Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosí. caves not named. from newspaper, title and date unknown, anonymous. newspaper clipping and photocopy

0055-08God's Savious in the Sierra Madre, by William Merrill, Natural History, March 1983:58-67. Tarahumara or Rarámuri Indians ethnography, includes suggested readings on the Indians on later page. photocopy

0058-10notes on current research in western Mesoamerica by John Paddock, American Antiquity31(1):133-136 1965. Tehuacán Valley, Oaxaca and Puebla, Purron and Abejas caves, Cueva de la Nopalera, Hidalgo. photocopy

0059-05Deep Pits and Caves in the New World and Pacific Oceania, by Bill Deane,Nashville Speleonews 11(2):22-23. Sótano de Tlamaya and Ventana Jabalí, San Luis Potosí, Sótano de Joya de Salas, Tamaulipas, Sótano de Milpa, ?. photocopy

0060-03notes of Current Research, Western MesoAmerica, by John Paddock, American Antiquity 33(1):122-128 1968. Mentions "caves" northeast of Izúcar de Matamores, Puebla, Cueva Blanca, near Mitla, Oaxaca, "damp caves" in Guerrero. photocopy

0064-01The Present Status of the Archaeology of Western Mexico: A Distributional Study, by Robert Lister, University of Colorado Studies, Series in Anthropology #5, 1955, 183 pp. photocopy of entire book

0065Evolution of the Coahuila Peninsula, Mexico

0065-01Evolution of the Coahuila Peninsula, Mexico, Part I: Relation of Structure, Stratigraphy, and Igneous Activity to an Early Continental Margin, by L. Kellum, R. Imlay, W. Kane, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 47:969-1008 plus plates 1936. photocopy

0065-02Evolution of the Coahuila Peninsula, Mexico, Part II: Geology of the Mountains Bordering the Valleys of Acatita and Las Delicias, by W. Kelly, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 47:1009-1038 plus plates 1936. photocopy

0065-03Evolution of the Coahuila Peninsula, Mexico, Part III: Geology of the Mountains West of the Laguna District, by Lewis Kellum, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 47:1009-1090 plus plates 1936. photocopy

0065-04Evolution of the Coahuila Peninsula, Mexico, Part IV: Geology of the Western Part of the Sierra de Parras, by Ralph Imlay, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 47:1091-1152 plus plates 1936. photocopy

0068Chiapas and Chihuahua. This is part of Mexico cave file created by James Reddell in the late 1960s. Unless otherwise noted, the item is a single-page typescript containing some of the following items for each cave: L approximate location, D description, B bibliography, H history of AMCS visits.

0069Coahuila. This is part of Mexico cave file created by James Reddell in the late 1960s. Unless otherwise noted, the item is a single-page typescript containing some of the following items for each cave: L approximate location, D description, B bibliography, H history of visits.

0069-44Cueva de San Vicente, Cuatro Ciénegas de Carranza, Coahuila. LDH see 0069.

0069-45Spring Cave, Coahuila. (name only) see 0069.

0069-46Cueva de Yeso, Viesca, Coahuila. LDH see 0069.

0069-47caves (Bella Unión), Saltillo, Coahuila. LDB see 0069.

0069-48Gruta de Cuevacillas, Arteaga, Coahuila. LDBH see 0069.

0070Distrito Federal (D.F.), Durango, Guerrero, Morelos. This is part of Mexico cave file created by James Reddell in the late 1960s. Unless otherwise noted, the item is a single-page typescript containing some of the following items for each cave: L approximate location, D description, B bibliography, H history of AMCS visits.

0071Nuevo León (part). This is part of Mexico cave file created by James Reddell in the late 1960s. Unless otherwise noted, the item is a single-page typescript containing some of the following items for each cave: L approximate location, D description, B bibliography, H history of AMCS visits.

0071-15 crudely written manuscript road log from "end of road" at 65.3 through Cañón Pedregoso? to "leave canyon" at 70.2. Mentions towns of San Vicente and Boquillas, cave leads. no name, no date

0071-16handwritten ms version of 0071-11, plus brief road log out of Arteaga.

0072Nuevo León (part). This is part of Mexico cave file created by James Reddell in the late 1960s. Unless otherwise noted, the item is a single-page typescript containing some of the following items for each cave: L approximate location, D description, B bibliography, H history of AMCS visits.

0073Oaxaca and Puebla. This is part of Mexico cave file created by James Reddell in the late 1960s. Unless otherwise noted, the item is a single-page typescript containing some of the following items for each cave: L approximate location, D description, B bibliography, H history of AMCS visits.

0074Querétaro. This is part of Mexico cave file created by James Reddell in the late 1960s. Unless otherwise noted, the item is a single-page typescript containing some of the following items for each cave: L approximate location, D description, B bibliography, H history of AMCS visits.

0074-01manuscript with many editing marks for article "Non-Archaeological Speleological Features at La Cienega de San Juan, Mun. de Pinal de Amoles, Qro." by John Greer. Querétaro. numerous caves and pit. This was probably meant to be a companion article to Greer's article on archaeological caves in Association for Mexican Cave Studies Newsletter 5(4), but was never published because that was the last issue.

0074-02Sótano de Camposantes, Querétaro. LDH see 0074, but handwritten

0074-03Cueva de Puente de Dios (Río Jalpan), Querétaro. LDH see 0074, but handwritten

0075San Luis Potosí (part). This is part of Mexico cave file created by James Reddell in the late 1960s. Unless otherwise noted, the item is a single-page typescript containing some of the following items for each cave: L approximate location, D description, B bibliography, H history of AMCS visits.

0075-01Discovery and Exploration of Sótano de Puerto de los Lobos, by Joe Sumbera. edited manuscript, Sótano de Hondo de Sierra de Arboles de Puerto de los Lobos, San Luis Potosí.

0076San Luis Potosí (part). This is part of Mexico cave file created by James Reddell in the late 1960s. Unless otherwise noted, the item is a single-page typescript containing some of the following items for each cave: L approximate location, D description, B bibliography, H history of AMCS visits.

0077Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala. This is part of Mexico cave file created by James Reddell in the late 1960s. Unless otherwise noted, the item is a single-page typescript containing some of the following items for each cave: L approximate location, D description, B bibliography, H history of AMCS visits.

0077-01Cueva de la Chinacatera, Sinaloa. LDB see 0077

0077-02shallow caves (Los Mochis), Los Mochis, Sinaloa. LB see 0077

0077-03cave (Santa Lucia), Concordia, Sinaloa. LB see 0077

0077-04cave (Topolobampo), Los Mochis, Sinaloa. LDB see 0077

0077-05cave (Zaragoza), Sinaloa. LB see 0077

0077-06Cueva de la Chinacatera = Cueva Montelarga, Sinaloa. LB

0077-07Cueva de Don Cristino, Mazatlan, Sinaloa. LB see 0077

0077-08cave (Chinobampo), Sinaloa. LDB see 0077

0077-09large cave (Chinobampo), Sinaloa. LDB see 0077

0077-10cave (Guaymas), Guaymas, Sonora. LB see 0077

0077-11Cueva de Don Luis, Teapa, Tabasco. LDB see 0077

0077-12Cueva Abajo de Carreterra, Tula, Tamaulipas. LDH see 0077

0077-13cave (Acuña), Tamaulipas. LDB see 0077

0077-14cave (Tlaxcala), Tlaxcala. LDBH see 0077

0078Veracruz (part). This is part of Mexico cave file created by James Reddell in the late 1960s. Unless otherwise noted, the item is a single-page typescript containing some of the following items for each cave: L approximate location, D description, B bibliography, H history of AMCS visits.

0078-02unsigned text description of Sótano de Oztoatlicholoa, Veracruz, a draft with some dimensions left blank. a bit over one typewritten page, photocopy

0078-03Cueva de Camposantos, Actopan, Veracruz. LDH see 0078

0078-04Cueva del Cantil Blanco, Actopan, Veracruz. LDH see 0078

0078-05Cueva del Infiernillo, Naolinco, Veracruz. LDBH see 0078

0078-06Cueva de los Vampiros, Actopan, Veracruz. LDH see 0078

0078-07Cueva del Soldado, Orizaba, Veracruz. LDH see 0078

0078-08part of trip report with cave descriptions, by Warren Heller, Philadelphia Grotto Digest 8(1-2):14-20 about 1970?. misfiled: San Luis Potosí. small caves along the new Xilitla road; new sótanos, mostly unnamed except Sótano de Palo Blanco, in Tamapatz area; Cueva Linda; Cueva de San Nicolas. photocopy

0078-09Notes on Caves in the Soledad-Necoxtla Area, by Warren Heller and Bob Kezell, pages 9 and 10 of unknown source, area sketch map referred to not present. Veracruz? Cueva de Cerro, Cueva de Soledad, Sótano del Diablo, unnamed caves and pits. appears to be original duplicated pages.

0078-14sketch map of area near Tequila, Veracruz, with numerous sótanos marked. photocopy

0078-15small cave (Fortin), Fortin, Veracruz. LDB see 0078

0078-16large cave (Fortin), Fortin, Veracruz. LDB see 0078

0078-17Vampire Cave, Fortin, Veracruz. LDB see 0078

0079Veracruz (part). This is part of Mexico cave file created by James Reddell in the late 1960s. Unless otherwise noted, the item is a single-page typescript containing some of the following items for each cave: L approximate location, D description, B bibliography, H history of AMCS visits.

0083-03hand-written road log from Veracruz, Veracruz, to Acatlán, Oaxaca and from Acatlán to Cueva de Juan Sanchez = Cueva de Río Almolonga, Oaxaca, with sketch map of the latter. original in purple ink

0083-04pencil draft of map, name illegible, Acatlán, Oaxaca?. original and photocopy

0083-05pencil draft of map, Cueva de Polvo, state unknown. fragile original and photocopy

0083-06pencil draft of plan of Tres Manantiales cave and route map from Ocampo, Tamaulipas. original and photocopy

0086AMCS Bulletin 10, Caves of the Golondrinas Area. Maps received for publication in paper form; 8.5 x 11 paper unless noted. All are in Mpo. Aquismón, San Luis Potosí. Cave name followed by nearby town or village.

0089-01list of photograph files in photos/Golondrinas/crevice entrance by Broussard.tif on D003, including key to file names (G*) after sizing. see 0089.

0089-02captions for Sótano de las Golondrinas photographs, as revised by Peter Sprouse. These are the captions for the photos in photos/Golondrinas on D003. see 0089

0089-03set of laser-prints of the Sótano de las Golondrinas photos considered for the book. These have been cropped but not yet resized. Prints are labeled by the file names in photos/Golondrinas on D003. Captions are in 0089-02. see also 0089

0090photographs of area caves other than Golondrinas, considered for AMCS Bulletin 10, Caves of the Golondrinas Area. These are laser prints of the files in photos/other caves on D003 archive CD. Summary printout of captions lost; additional info on some of these may be found in the book. These photos have been prepared for printing (cropped, etc.) but not set to final size yet.

0090-01list of files in photos/other caves directory on D003 archive disk, by file name. May be used in conjunction with the following entries to find the image file.

0091black-and-white laser prints of photos considered for introductory section of AMCS Bulletin 10, Caves of the Golondrinas Area. San Luis Potosí. Mpo. Aquismón. photos have been prepared for printing but not yet sized.

0091-01list of files in directory photos/general in archive disk D003. The A* files in that directory are the resized versions of these photos. see 0091

0092-07printout of memo outlining contents of Bulletin 10 archive disk D003. This is file what is here.rtf on the disk. see 0092

0092-08instructions given to the offset printer for the original printing of AMCS Bulletin 10 cover. Printout of file readme.doc on disk D005, plus draft inkjet prints of front and back cover. see 0092

0092-09instructions given to the offsert printer of the original printing of AMCS Bulletin 10 cover. Printout of file readme.doc on disk D004, plus listing of files on that disk. see 0092

0093maps (part) for AMCS Bulletin 10, Caves of the Golondrinas Area (except Sótano de las Golondrinas foldout). Computer printouts, generally both an original version (Xara, scan, etc.) and version prepared for printing as sheets stapled together. Files for these are in directory /maps on CD archive disk D003. All caves are in Mpo. Aquismón, San Luis Potosí.

0093-01Sótano de Guadalupe, Tamapatz. see 0093

0093-02Sótano de Dar Gracias, Unión de Guadalupe. see 0093

0093-03Cueva de Arena, Sopope. see 0093

0093-04Cueva de San Nicolas, Tamapatz. see 0093

0093-05Sótano de las Quilas, La Laja. see 0093

0093-06Cueva de Infierno, La Laja. see 0093

0093-07Cueva del Camion de La Laja, Tamapatz. see 0093

0093-08Cueva se Palal Xol, Tamapatz. see 0093

0093-09Cueva Linda, La Linja. see 0093

0093-10Pozo de Deseos, Paxaljá. see 0093

0093-11Cueva de La Laja, La Laja. see 0093

0093-12Ceva de las Colmenas, Tanzozob. see 0093

0093-13Cueva de los Huesos, Tanzozob. see 0093

0093-14Cueva con Ollas, Tanzozob. see 0093

0093-15Cueva de San Rafael, San Rafael. see 0093

0093-16Sotanito de la Reina, San Rafael. see 0093

0093-17Cueva del Agua de Tanzozob, Tanzozob. see 0093

0093-18Sótano de La Linja, La Linja. see 0093

0094maps (part) for AMCS Bulletin 10, Caves of the Golondrinas Area (except Sótano de las Golondrinas foldout). Computer printouts, generally both an original version (Xara, scan, etc.) and version prepared for printing as sheets stapled together. Files for these are in directory /maps on CD archive disk D003. All caves are in Mpo. Aquismón, San Luis Potosí.

0120-11area map, Dos Bocas and Gruta de Cacahuamilpa, Guerrero, photocopy from "Cavern Making in a Part of the Mexican Plateau," by J Harlen Bretz, Journal of Geology 63 p. 366.Also enlarged version for AMCS printing. In Act. Nl. 23, p. 75.

0125-03draft AMCS text back from author with answers to queries, printout

0125-04e-mail from Chris Lloyd with photo captions

0125-05printouts of some photos with captions attached

0125-06Cueva del Río Durazno, Michoacán, map, original version and as published

0125-07Dos Aguas area map, original version and as published

0125-08printout from http://www.cancaver.ca/int/mexico/zotz/others/xalti2000.html. Xalltégoxtli—Easter 2000, by Chris Densham (edited by Chris Lloyd from something written for the OUCC Newsletter [Oxford]), and Postscript by Chris Lloyd—A Description of the Connection Series. This text did not appear in the AMCS article.

0128-12Central Role for the Lens in Cave Fish Eye Degeneraton, by Yoshiyuki Yamamoto and William Jeffery, Science, v 289 p 631 28 July 2000. printout of first page only, for abstract, www.sciencemag.org.

0128-13Expe GSAB, Mexique 97, by Richard Grebeude and Serge Delaby, Regards 28 1997, with translation into English in 8 May 2001 e-mail from Melanie Alspaugh

0129AMCS Activities Newsletter 24. Mexico News source material (part)

0129-01note about two cavers lost in Chorreadero, Chiapas, from CaveTex Digest 95, quoting Canadian press reports 4/19/2000 and 4/20/2000.

0129-09note from Jim Coke about connections of Sistema Sac Actun to Cenote Naval East and Cenote Calimba, Quintana Roo

0129-10Cueva del Ángel, San Luis Potosí, English translation by Oscar Berrones of part of article on the cave in Tsaval 6, p 24-25, by Juan Cancino Zapata.

0129-11note on expedition to Xeil-Ha (Xel-Ha) and Xcaret cenotes, Quintana Roo by French and Portuguese divers in Regards 33, p 36., 1998, citing Sifon 1998, p.32. Note is in French, with English translation attached

0129-14Discover the Unknown, by Bernd Birnbach, in http://www.aquaexploration.com/English/News/news101998.htm. article not used in Mexico News. Sistema del Mar (connected shortly after to Sistema Exmeralda to form Sistema Ox Bel Ha). line plot of Sistema del Mar.

0151-0421 July 2008 e-mail from Yvonne Droms re information needed to obtain FM-3 visas for expedition members (eventually not needed)

0151-05third announcement, August 29, 2008, from Bill Stone

0151-06fourth announcement, January 26, 2009, from Bill Stone

0151-07advice from Bill Stone February 3, 2009, on physical training for the expedition

0151-08e-mail from Mark Minton re possible medical supplies

0151-09e-mail March 2, 2009, from Mark Minton and Yvonne Droms listing the equipment requirements and vertical skills tests to be administered by Marcin Gala before participants permitted into the cave

0158-01printouts of tables received from Mark Minton, May 2010 (some updates were made in the layout)

0158-02e-mail from Mark Minton May 20, 2010, containing some updates to the long cave list

0158-03original ms

0158-04black-and-white contact sheets and captions for photographs (some additional photos were received later and are on the archive disk)

0158-05plan and profile map of Sistema Borges, Quintana Roo, original and as sized for printing (black-and-white printout of map printed in color)

0158-06printouts of photos prepared for printing

0158-07printout of original paper for this historical reprint: The First Known Blind Fish of the Family Characidae: A New Genus from Mexico, by Carl L. Hubbs and William T. Innes, Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, number 342, December 17, 1936.

0158-08plate 1 prepared for printing

0158-09original article for this history item: Sótano de Huitzmolotitla, by Robert W. Mitchell, Association for Mexican Cave Studies Newsletter 4(1)7-10, January 1973. San Luis Potosí. printed from AMCS CD reprint.

0161-05archaeology in Grutas de Akil, Yucatán, post to Tlamaqui e-mail list, with news article about Grupo URION discoveries in Spanish, with Google translation

0161-06printout from John Pint's saudicaves Web site about film "Naica, Journey to the Crystal Cave" premier, with interviews with Paolo Forti and Penny Boston

0161-07posts to TexasCavers e-mail list from Antonio Aguirre (February 22, 2010) and Fofo Gonzalez (February 23) about rescue of injured man who had fallen into pit in Tepecuitlapa, Veracruz.

0161-08press reports about the rescue of French tourists from cenote near Homún, Yucatán, 28 December 2009. One from Iztaxochitla e-mail list January 4, 2010, and another, dated January 5, printed from Web, with Google translations

0161-09package of info about the fatal accident in abandoned mine near San Joaquin, Querétaro: posts to Tlamaqui e-mail list January 19, 20, and 21, 2010, by Gilberto Ledesma (with Google translations); post to Tlamaqui e-mail list January 24 by Antonio Aguirre, with English version translated by Fofo Gonzalez on TexasCavers list January 25.

0163-01Does a Predatory Insect Contribute tothe Divergence between Cave- and Surface-Adapted Fish Populations?, by Michael Tobler. abstract of 2009 article in Biology Letters from Web and press release about the same study from Web blog. Villa Luz, Tabasco. see also 0163-03

0163-02How Long Does Evolution of the Troglomorphic Form Take? Extimating Divergence Times in Astyanax Mexicanus, by Megan Porter, Katharina Dittmar, and Marcos Pérez-Losada. photocopy of abstract of article in Time in Karst: Selected Papers and Abstracts of the symposium help Harch 14 through 16, 2007, Postojna, Slovenia, pages 173-182. Karst Waters Institute Special Publication 12, 2007. (the same book was published as Acta Carsologica 36(1) 2007)

0163-03short note about the same research reported in 0163-01, in Science 324 p. 995, 22 May 2009. photocopy

0163-07report on helping French video production of hot-air balloon ascent from Sótano de La Lucha, Chiapas, by Ricardo Arias, with English translation draft by Oscar Berrones

0163-08Cenotes of the Yucatán Peninsula: Wow!, by Tania Lemieux, Canadian Caver 71, 34-36, fall 2009. trip report on the excursion to Quintana Roo following the International Congress of Speleology. photocopy

0164-01Phylogenetic Analysis of Mexican Cave Scorpions Suggests Adaptation to Caves is Reversable. American Museum of Natural History press release printed from Web

0164-02Systematic Revison of the Troglomorphic North American Scorpion Family Typhlochactidae (Scorpiones, Chaactoidea), by Valerio Vignoli and Lorenzo Prendini. abstract printed from Web of Bulletin 326 of the American Museum of Natural History.

0164-03Mexican Cave Explorer Makes History at -2000 Meters: An Interview with Gustavo Vela Turcott. printed from John Pint's Web site (ranchopint.com)

0164-04post to Tlamaqui e-mail list (Amilcar Jiménez, March 1, 2010) about visit to village of San José Independencia, near Zongolica, Veracruz by cavers from UNAM. Tomasa Quiaua and other caves.

0171-03Gerald Moni's report on trip to Sierra de Guatemala (Joya de Salas, Tamaulipas) and Jacala, Hidalgo, December 1998, with lists of caves found.

0171-04Gerald Moni's report on trip to Jacala area, Hidalgo, in February 1999, with list of 98 caves and pits explored.

0171-05excerpts from Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the Year 1826 with Some Account of the Mines of That Country, by G. F. Lyon, vol. 1, p. 130-139. Shrine cave in Sierra de Guatemala, Tamaulipas. typescript from Gerald Atkinson.

0171-06Excerpts from Journey to Mexico during the Years 1826-1834, by Jean Louis Berlandier, translated by Texas State Historical Association. shrine cave in Sierra de Guatmala, Tamaulipas, with commentary by Bill Elliott. typescript from Gerald Atkinson.

0171-07trip report printed from e-mail by Jim Kennedy of Laguna de Sánchez, Nuevo León area trip March 1999, with attached list of known caves 1999, area map

0171-08status of cave surveys from the Laguna de Sánchez, Nuevo León, expeditions as of January 2005 and faunal listing from Laguna de Sánchez area caves, by James Reddell and Jim Kennedy. printout.

173-07black and white printout of contact sheet of Gustavo Vela's photos of 2005 J2 expedition, Oaxaca. Files are on D156 DVD. (The files on D154-155 and on D156 are the same photos, but the files are numbered differently.)

173-08color photographic prints of seven selected slides from Cueva Cheve and Cueva de la Mano in Oaxaca, with caption info. Not sure just which expedition or expeditions these are from.

173-09catalog sheet for Gustavo Vela photos scanned here 4/05, including GSAB 2005 to Puebla and some other photos, perhaps Cuba. Scans are on disks D160, D161.

0174-07area maps with previously explored areas and caves noted, received from Matt Oliphant when it was thought that group might have to go elsewhere because of permission problems, principally area around San Miguel Santa Flor, Oaxaca.

0175from William Russell

0175-01"A Description of the Short Pull-Down Trip of the Chorreadero Cave, Chiapas, Mexico," by Rick Bubenko and Calvin Smith, January 2002. printout of ms.

0176-07A Brief Description of the Caving Areas of Mexico, 2-page anonymous ms dated 16 March 1966, plus map of the country with area mentioned indicated.

0176-08Characteristics of Selected Mexican Karst Area, ms table with rainfall, temperature, and vegetation; relief and erosion; and short paragraph on karst features for: "north of Monterrey," "south of Monterrey," Sierra de Guatemala, Sierra de El Abra, Xilitla, Guerrero, and Huautla. photocopy with added notations 180 (page ?) and "will be reduced." Where published unknown.

0176-09letter to Stone that his History of Mexican Speleology paper for the conference in Cuba in 1992 would not be published, because proceedings of that conference not printed. Notes added to letter suggesting that AMCS publish it; it's in AMCS Activities Newsletter 22.

0176-10undated AMCS membership list

0177from William Russell

0177-01printed copy of foldout map of Sistema Purificación, Tamaulipas, plan and profile that appeared in AMCS Activities Newsletter 18 following page 100.

0177-02list of participants, with addresses, in a trip to the Sierra de El Abra, San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas, date unknown. original handwritten list.

0177-03AMCS cave report form for Cueva de Gachupinas, Villagran (?), Tamaulipas, with location sketch and narrative location. no description, no date, anon.

0177-12folded printed copy of the Sierra de El Abra (San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas) are map with cave locations that was published as page 127 in Association for Mexican Cave Studies Newsletter volume 3.

0177-13ms of trip report, Rancho de Cielo, Tamaulipas, 20-25 December 1965, by T. R. Evans. carbon copy. Not published in the Association for Mexican Cave Studies Newsletter, but the same trip is reported by John Cole on pages 113-155 of volume 1.

0177-14old map of Gruta de Bustamante (=Gruta del Palmito), Nuevo León, printed in black on thin paper and distributed by the Hotel and Restaurant Ancira. see also 0177-05.

0178-03letter to AMCS from Dorothy Brett, March 5, 1975, asking if the AMCS knew anything of a cave described in an old newpaper clipping, and photocopy enclosed. The clipping datelined Mexico City, August 13. Year and place of publication unknown. Huge cave with marble floors paved with skulls . . . .

0178-04letter from Bill Stone to Pierre Bergeron of Quebec describing leads in the area of Tancoyol, Querétaro. October 22, 1980. photocopy

0178-05trip report, Orizaba and vicinity, Veracruz, by T. R. Evans, June and July 1962. 8-page photocopy of ms. This article was published in Association for Mexican Cave Studies Newsletter 4(1)18-22, 1973.

0179-07assembled map of Sima Colgado, Tinajas, Nuevo León. Typeset legend, but photocopy of pencil draft of map. 1997. This is the cave mentioned on page 35 of Activities Newletter 23 as Sima Colgada; apparently map never completed or published.

0179-08sketch map of cave, locally called a sótano, just past the village of Mahuat on trail south from Tamapatz, San Luis Potosí. Text description, location sketch map. Unfortunately the cave name was cut off when the photocopy was made.

0179-09AMCS cave report form: Cueva de los Cuartelas, Tamaulipas, near Aldama. no further information, no date.

0180-03much reduced photocopy of map of Gruta de Manhuantla by M. Tapie and P. Tapie. This is probably the same cave as Gruta de Malhuantla mentioned in those authors' article in AMCS Activities Newsletter 15.

0181-03A Brief Check List of the Caves of Mexico Arranged by States--Feb. 6, 1963. Purple Ditto, 5 pages, published by Speleological Survey of Mexico. (does not include Yucatan)

0181-04The Speleological Survey of Mexico's First Report of the Caves of Mexico, February 12, 1963. Edited by T. R. Evans. 23 pages.

0181-05carbon copy of anonymous ms dated 7 April 1963. Introduction starts, "Mexican caves to be described in the forth coming article in honor of Robert J. Weitlaner . . . ." Brief descriptions of caves of the Sierra Madre Occidental, the area of Zape Chico, between Durango and Torreón, and near Torreón. mostly archaeological shelters in Durango or Coahuila.

0182from William Russell

0182-01two-page original typed list of caves in Mexico, various states. no date, no author.

0182-02handwritten observations of air (Camp I) and water (right-hand sump) temperatures in Infierillo, Sistema Purificación, Tamaulipas, April 1979

0185-02Sótano de los Loros, Tamuín, San Luis Potosí, map dated April 1971. Photocopy or printed copy. Cave is mentioned in some trip reports in Association for Mexican Cave Studies Newsletter, vol 3, but map was not published there.

0185-03Jumar Madness, anon. short script for play about caving in Mexico, no date, place of publication, if any, unknown. 3-page muddy photocopy.

0185-04Pilgrimage to Oztotl Cave, by Craig Bittinger, fictional trip report that was published in Texas Caver, Janaury 1977, pp. 4-5. photocopy of manuscript

0187-07three-page original typewritten ms listing caves to be described in an forthcoming article by J. Alden Mason: caves of the Sierra Madre Oriental, caves between Durango and Torreón, caves near Torreón. mostly archaeological shelters, but some limestone caves. undated, anon.

0187-1012 August 1975 letter to Bill Russell from Bill Elliott(?) at Texas Tech, concerning progress of surveys in Sierra de Guatemala, Tamaulipas, and analysis of biological samples

0187-111-page letter from "Buckner Hall", January 24, 1969, to T. R. Evans containing list of 9 caves in the Valle de los Fantasmos area, San Luis Potosí, original typscript, unsigned. Sótano Hondo de Sierras de Arboles de Puerto de los Lobos, Sótano de Nopales, Cueva del Iglesia, Cueva de Cincuenta-Ocho, Sótano de Ojo de Agua, Cueva de las Golondrinas, Cueva de los Caballos, unnamed sótano near latter. very brief descriptions and rough locations

0188from William Russell

0188-01ms of trip report; second half only of trip report that appeared on pp. 3-5 of Association for Mexican Cave Studies Newsletter 1(1), reporting on November 29 to December 7, 1964. anonymous. photocopy

0188-03early 2-page ms, anon. (T. R. Evans?), no date, note on prospects of caving in Mexico and request for information, photocopy. whether and where published unknown

0188-042 page ms with cover sheet "AMCS trip report 18." trip 25 November 1964 to 29 November 1964, Sierra de El Abra, Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosí. the trip is reported in Association for Mexican Cave Studies Newsletter 1(1)2, but not taken from this ms.

0197-05Huautla cave system, route from San Agustín Entrance to San Agustín Sump (profile) and San Agustín Simp and Beyond (plan and profile). Maps from endpapers of Beyond the Deep, printouts of files from Barbara am Ende before editing for Mexico News publication.

0208-04short report from R. D. Milhollin, with translation into Spanish by Juan Montaño Hirose. (Original ms of what appeared in Mexico News.)

0208-05e-mail quoting Associated Press dispatch from Mexico City

0208-06e-mail to Bill Stone from Ramón Espinasa with wrap-up of the effort

0208-07e-mail post to CaveTex list by Rodolfo Gonzalez with wrap-up of the effort

0208-08printout of Noticieros Televisa report by Susana Lopez.

0208-09printout from Web site of El Sol de Pueba, April 11

0208-10printout from Web site of El Sol de Pueba, April 12

0208-11e-mails from Peter Sprouse listing some URLs of info on the accident

0208-12printout from Web site XPMexico.com, April 14

0208-13unassigned

0208-14printout from Web site of El Sol de Pueba, April 11

0208-15printout of Cambio de Puebla Web site, April 12

0208-16printout from Web site of Montañismo y Exploración, 12 April

0209Activities Newsletter 27. Some items saved for Mexico News but not used.

0209-01e-mail news from Jim Coke about Ox Bel Ha, Quintana Roo, with line plot of the cave as of December 2003

0209-02e-mail post to CaveTex e-mail list by David Locklear and info from Espeleo Rescate México Web site on non-cave rescue in San Luis Potosí

0209-03printout from Incursiones—Caves and Underground Adventures web site. Mentions Grutas de Estrella, México (state); Cacahuimilpa and Dos Bocas, Guerrero; Juxtlahuaca, Guerrero; Sótano de las Golondrinas, San Luis Potosí; Gruta de Zacatecolotla, Guerrero; and some other river caves. Includes list of long caves of Mexico as of April 2002.

0209-04info from Sergio Santana via Yvonne Droms about Finnish visit to Golondrinas for BASE jumping at Sótano de las Golondrinas, San Luis Potosí, and list of fees at the cave

0213-01blakc-and-white printouts of photos used, including versions prepared for printing and printout of original page from photo gallery on original source D188 with caption info. (The version prepared for printing are from higher-res files on D189.)

0213-02black-and-white printouts of a few additional photos with caption info from photo gallery on D188 that weren't selected for requesting higher-res files.

0213-03black-and-white printouts of a two additional photos with caption info from photo gallery on D188 not used.

0213-04line plot of Sistema Ox Bel Ha, Quintana Roo, new discoveries November 2003, original version and published versions with numerous place names added.

0213-05area map Tulum to Sian Ka'an Reserve, Quintana Roo, original version and as printed

0216-13plan map of Cueva de Agua Escondido, Agua Escondido, Tacotalpa, Tabasco, original and nearly as printed

0216-14plan and profile map of Cueva de Perro Fantasmas, Poana, Tacotalpa, Tabasco, original and as printed

0216-15plan map of Cueva del Polvorín, Poana, Tacotalpa, Tabasco, original and as printed

0216-16plan map of Cueva de Poana, Poana, Tacotalpa, Tabasco, original and as printed

0216-17plan map of Cueva de Dos Bovedas and Cueva de Garzas, Poana, Tacotalpa, Tabasco, original and as printed

0216-18plan and profile map of Cueva de Arroyo Azul, Sierra Poana, Tabasco, original and as printed

0216-19plan and profile map of Pozo del Niño Perdido, Tabasco, original and as printed

0216-20planand profile map of Gruta de Ejido de Tacotalpa No. 2, Tacotalpa, Tabasco, original and as printed

0216-21planand profile map of Gruta de Ejido de Tacotalpa No. 1, Tacotalpa, Tabasco, original and as printed

0216-22plan map of Croquis de la Gruta Arroyo la Chispa, Tabasco, original and as printed

0216-23plan and profile map of Caverna de Muerte, Arroyo Chispa, Tacotalpa, Tabasco, original and as printed

0216-24plan and profile map of Gruta de Kolemja, Parque de Kolemja, Tabasco, original and as printed

0216-25pland and profile map of Cueva de Viento Petrefacción, Tapijulapa, Tacotalpa, Tabasco, original and as printed

0216-26plans and profiles of Grutas de Cuesta Chica no. 2, 3, and 5, also known as Gruta de Cuatro Tecolotes, Gruta de Ponce, and Culvert Cave, Tabasco, original and as printed, together with maps of the individual caves on separate sheets.

0219-07announcement and program for 7th Mexican National Caving Congress, Monterrey, Nuevo León, February 2005.

0219-08article A Personal Examination and Commentary on the Double Fatality in Cenote Calimba, Sistema Sac Actun, 9th December 2004, by Steve Bogaerts, The DecoStop Internet forum, printout April 8, 2005, of post on February 1, 2005. Quintana Roo. See also 0219-09.

0219-09article A Rebuttal to Steve Bogaert's Article Titled[as in 0219-07], by Steve Gerrard, The DecoStop Internet forum, printout April 8, 2005, of post on February 9, 2005. Quintana Roo.

0219-10Maya underworld field notes from David Roberts, from National Geographic web site. small cave in Quintana Roo.

0219-11printout from web: Mexplo 2002 GSAB expedition. Not used in Mexico News.

0220-06article The Cave: Local Filmmakers help Sony create latest movie, by Ronald Dupont, from High Springs [Florida] Herald, January 6, 2005. printout of e-mail and printout from web of text. filming "The Cave" in Quintana Roo.

0220-07publicity release from Hidden Worlds Dive Shop re work on film "The Cave," including scenes shot in Quintana Roo. e-mail from Jill Heinerth.

0220-08material about French divers in Quintana Roo, including considerable e-mail exchange about how reliable their reports are.

0220-09printout from La Jornada, UNAM web site about Maya at Dzitnup, Yucatán, assaulting some neighbors who were going to sell cenote to eco-tourism company.

0224-06printouts of historic photos taken 1966 by Sam Young, Tlamaya, San Luis Potosí, with caption writeup by Young. Some of these were used a fillers in Activities Newsletter 28. Scan files are on D199.

0225material from 2001 Innerspace Odyssey Expedition distribution to sponsors and team members

0227-01printout of note about contents of Al Warild website archive on D179

0227-02On a New Species of Earthworm from a Mexican Cave, by Gordon Gates, International Journal of Speleology 3(1/2)63-70, 1968. printout from journal's CD.

0227-03printouts of correspondence with Elery Hamilton-Smith re possible World Heritage sites in Mexican karst, November 2003. Includes document World Heritage: Criteria and Processes.

0227-04Hydrogeology of the Edwards-Trinity Aquifer of Texas and Coahuila in the Border Region, by Radu Boghici, chapter 4 (pp. 91-114) from Texas Water Development Board report 360, 2004. printout from web.

0227-09Expedition to Friendship: They Crossed a Border and Found Two New Worlds, by Robert Weddle, Rotarian, 103(4)58-59, October 1963. printout from Google books. Grutas de Bustamanto (Palmito), Nuevo León.

0237-06original material in Half Hours in the Far South: The People and Scenery of the Tropics, anon., published 1878 by Daldy, Isbister & Co., London. printout from Google Books of pages 309-342, "Southern Tierra Caliente, Mexico."

0237-07e-mail from Ed Sevcik with results of library search for info on the book

0237-08printouts of illustrations prepared for AMCS printing

0237-09original ms

0237-10printouts of photos prepared for printing, with caption info. These and other photos from the trip appear in a PowerPoint show of D141.

0242-12abstract Study of Hydraulics and Hydrocarbon Pollution Behavior of a Karst Aquifer in a Tropical Area: Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, by J. Garcia-Sanchez and I. Navarro-Gonzalez. Yucatán. from geocities.com contents of Theoretical and Applied Karstology 16. also includes note from Patricia Beddows listing a couple of other papers on karst groundwater around Mérida.

0242-14article Exploration of Underwater Caves of the Riviera Maya, Mexico 2003-2005, by Zdenek Motycka, from special bulletin of the Slovak Speleological Society for the 14th ICS in Greece, 2005, pages 24-26. photocopy

0242-15article Proyecto Cheve: Polish Cavers in US Deep Caving Team Expeditions to Mexico, by Katarzyna Biernacka and Marcin Gala, in Polish Caving 2001-2005 published for the 14th International Congress of Speleology in Greece, pages 31-32. printout from scans; text only (photos suppressed).

0243Activities Newsletter 29. Mexico News maps and other graphics

0243-01printouts of photos ready to print, with some caption info

0243-02profile from DEPTHX of Zacatón, Tamaulipas

0243-03plan and profile map of Sótano de la Cochera, Zaragoza, San Luis Potosí

0253-07abstract of Cave Development on the Caribbean Coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, Quintana Roo, Mexico, by Peter Smart et al., from Geological Society of America Special Paper 404, 2006, p 105. printout from PDF

0256-06maps of Resumidero de Piedra Arellano, San Luis Potosí: line plots of plan and various partial profiles, plus plan and profile plots showing relation to Resumidero El Borbollón. nearly as printed

0258-07profile map of Soplo de Los Toros, Los Toros, Nuevo León, original version

0258-08profile map of Soplo de Los Toros, Los Toros, Nuevo León, published version

0258-09captions for Fromen photos from Mark Minton

0258-10printouts of photos ready to print

0258-11printouts of some other photos prepared but not published

0259Activities Newsletter 31. Items 1-7: article Mexpé 2006, by Doug Munroe, pages 125-130 (Puebla). Items 8-11: article How to Make a Major Connection in Two Weeks, or The Shifting Sands of Time, by Matt Covington and Mark Minton, pages 52-63 (Río Iglesia and Sistema Huautla, Oaxaca)

0281-04abstract of Volcanic Karstification: Implications of This Hypogene Process, by Marcus Gary, program of 2008 Joint Annual Meeting, Geological Society of America. printout from web. Tamaulipas

0281-05abstract Mammoth Discovery: Paleontological and Geophysical Evidence for Timing and Sequence of Karstification at Sistema Zacatón, Mexico, by Marcus Gary et al., program of 2007 annual meeting of Geological Society of America, printout from web. Tamaulipas.

0281-06titles and short abstracts of paper on Mexico in Texas Memorial Museum Speleological Monograph 7, Studies on the Cave and Endogean Fauna of North America, Part V, 2009. Printout assembled from PDF of the book.

0281-07color thumbnails of photos of rebreather training in Austin, Texas, and printouts of photos ready to print, with caption info

0285-09announcement of Lifetime Adventure Award of the Australian Geographic Society for 2008 to Alan Warild, printout from web

0285-10article A New Species of Cave Adapted Nicoletiid (Zygentoma: Insecta) from Sistema Huautla, Oaxaca, Mexico: The Tenth Deepest Cave in the World, by Luis Espinasa and Nguyet Vuong, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 70(2)73-77. photocopy

0286Activities Newsletter 32. Mexico News source material (part)

0286-01data on Unión Mexicana de Agrupaciones Espeleológicas (UMAE) and Sociedad Mexicana de Exploraciones Subterráneas (SMES) from UIS web site as national bodies for Mexico (2009 not used in Mexico News)

0290-01The Ñuiñe Codex from the Colossal Natural Bridge on the Ndaxagua: An Early Pictographic Text from the Coixtlahuaca Basin, by Carlos Rincón Mautner, Institute for Maya Studies Journal 1(2)39-66, November 1995. Tepelmeme de Morelos, Oaxaca. printout from web.

0296-02The Ñuiñe Codex from the Colossal Natural Bridge on the Ndaxagua: An Early Pictographic Texas from the Coixtlahuaca Basin, by Carlos Rincón Mautner, Institute for Maya Studies Journal, 1(2)39-66, 1995.Oaxaca.

0296-04Constructed Landscapes—Exploring the Meaning and Significance of Recent Discoveries of Artificial Caves, by James E. Brady, Ketzalcalli number 1, pages 2-17, 2004.

0297miscellaneous

0297-01letter from Mark Stock about Sótano de San Agustín, Oaxaca, 3 February 1977, as printed in Windy City Speleonews 17(2)24, April 1977. original page

0297-02The Cambalidae in Mexican Caves, with Descriptions of Three New Species of Mexicambala (Diplpoda: Cambalida), by Nell B. Causey, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 84(34)271-282, 1971. offprint

0297-03Records of Cave Orthoptera from Northeastern and Central Mexico, with a Revision of the Gryllid Genus Paracophus and Descriptions of Three New Genera of Rhaphidophoridae, by Theordore H. Hubbell, in Subterranean Fauna of Mexico, Part I: Some Results of the First Italian Zoological Mission to Mexico, Sponsored by the National Academy of Lincei, pages 47-115 + 1 plate, 1972. offprint

0297-04Shh and Forebrain Evolution in the Blind Cavefish Astanax mexicanus, by Sylvie Rétaux, Laren Pottin, and Alessandro Alunni, Biology of the Cell number 100, 139-147, 2008. color printout from web

0315-02post to Tlamaqui e-mail list by Gustavo Vela, March 25, 2011, about Sierra Negra expedition, Puebla. Also post same place by Roberto Rojo, March 28, about the same trip. In Spanish with Google translations of both

0316-01Tlamaqui e-mail post March 10, 2011, by Gustavo Vela about visit to Río Petlapa canyon on border of Puebla and Oaxaca, and survey of Picatelcutli, Oaxaca, with Google translation and color contact sheet of photos

0317-04article about the gas explosion at hotel at Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo: Experts Iffy on Swamp Gas Explanation of Hotel Explosion, by Jennifer Ditchburn, printout from The Canadian Press web site November 15, 2010. same article from The Record web site, November 17, 2010.

0317-05article Homicide Charges Filed against Mexico Hotel Personnel for Deadly Blast, AP new item from web site of The Record, January 31, 2011. Quintana Roo

0317-06article Blind Fish Still Able to "See," by Charles Choi, 28 January 2008 on Live Science web site (San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas). (not used in Mexico News)

0319-04list of British expedition grants for 2011, including grant to Cave Diving Group expedition to Sistema Huautla, Oaxaca. photocopy from Descent.

0319-05announcement of cancellation of the Cave Diving Group expedition to Sistema Huautla, Oaxaca. printout from web

0319-06publisher's news release 7 April 2011 Through Evolution, Cavefish Have Lost Sleep. printout from eurekalert web site (San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas); and abstract Evolutionary Convergence on Sleep Loss in Cavefish Populations, by Erik Duboué, Alex Keene, and Richard Borowsky, from Current Biology web site (San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas)

0320-06information on Espeleo Rescate México. English translation of some summary material on its web site by Antonio Álvarez, with edited draft for Mexico News

0320-07article The Polygenetic Caves of Cuatro Ciénegas, (Coahuila, Mexico): Morphology and Speleogenesis, by Leonardo Piccini, Paulo Forti, Italo Giulivo, and Marco Mecchia. printout from La Venta web site. article appeared in different layout in International Journal of Speleology 36(2)83-92.

0320-08article Preliminary Notes on the Karst of Sierra Mixteca-Zapoteca, South of Techuacán, Mexico, by Leonardo Piccini, Marco Mecchia, and Paolo Forti. printout from La Venta web site. article appeared in different layout in Proceeding of the V Congreso FEALC, 25-36. Oaxaca

0322Activities Newsletter 34. Mexico News source material (part). Items 3-11 are printouts of English abstracts of article in Jaskinie, The Caves (Polish caving magazine); most of these were not mentioned in Mexico News.

0322-02abstract Effective Placed-Based Field Learing Spanning Subdisciplines and Undergraduate-Graduate Program Levels: Northwestern University Field Excursion to the Karst Geology of the Yucatan Peninsula, by Particia Beddows, from Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 42(5)443 (2010 annual meeting in Denver)

0327Gerald Moni's Mexican Cave Survey report forms for Xilitla area. These forms were the basis of the article Searching for the Big One at Xilitla, pages 93-108, AMCS Activities Newsletter 20, 1993. In addition to the data in the tables, location maps, and descriptions in the article, the forms include entrance coordinates. All the caves in this folder are in San Luis Potosí. Numbers after the cave names are key to table and map location. (part)

0327-01Sótano de Peña Blanca (1)

0327-02Cueva de Sapo (2)

0327-03Cueva de Laberinto (3)

0327-04Cueva Fausto (4)

0327-05Cueva del Tejón (5)

0327-06Cueva del Harador (6)

0327-07Sótano la Planada (7)

0327-08Sótano de Palomas (8)

0327-09Cueva de Lencho (9)

0327-10Sótano Encarnación (10)

0327-11Sótano de Cilantro (11)

0327-12Sótano de Liboria (12)

0327-13Sótano de Lamoras (13)

0327-14Cueva de Raymundo (14)

327-15Sótano de Daniel (15)

0327-16Cueva de Daniel (16)

0327-17Sótano de Quireno (17)

0327-18Sótano de Terrezu de Herrera (18)

0327-19Sótano de Barbara (19)

0327-20Cueva de Encarnación (20)

0327-21Cueva de Luisito (21)

0327-22Cueva de Sierra Teran (22)

0327-23Cueva de Teran (23)

0327-24Cueva de Cantil (24)

0327-25Sótano del Cotorro (25)

0327-26Sótano el Puerco (26)

0327-27Sótano de Uhuaxuco (27)

0327-28Cueva de Huaxuco (28)

0327-29Sótano de las Ropas Perdidos (29)

0327-30Sótano de Zaragoza (30)

0327-31Sótano de Toribio (31)

0327-32Cueva de Sirenio Muñoz (32)

0327-33Seotano de Chapulín (33)

0328Gerald Moni's Mexican Cave Survey report forms for Xilitla area. These forms were the basis of the article Searching for the Big One at Xilitla, pages 93-108, AMCS Activities Newsletter 20, 1993. In addition to the data in the tables, location maps, and descriptions in the article, the forms include entrance coordinates. All the caves in this folder are in San Luis Potosí. Numbers after the cave names are key to table and map location. (part)

0328-01Sótano de los Jarros (34)

0328-02Cueva de los Jarros (35)

0328-03unassigned

0328-04Sótano de Lutevio (36)

0328-05Seotano de Alicia (37)

0328-06Sótano de Barrio Huaxuco (38)

0328-07Cueva del Vidro Roto (39)

0328-08Cueva de Agua Fría (40)

0328-09Sótano de Mucho Machete (41)

0328-10Sótano de Huexco (42)

0328-11Sótano de Mojada (43)

0328-12Sótano Cabeza de Pollo (44)

0328-13Cueva de Mojada (45)

0328-14Sótano de Trelestino (46)

0328-15Cueva de Cerrano (47)

0328-16Cueva de Vicente Cerrano (48)

0328-17Sótano de Cesar (49)

0328-18Cueva de Odon (50)

0328-19Cueva de las Joyas de Mojada (51)

0328-20Cueva de Joyas Chicas (52)

0328-21Cueva de Esu (53)

0328-22Seotano de Jonas Trejo (54)

0328-23Sótano de Serrano (55)

0328-24Sótano Coate (56)

0328-25Borde del Mundo (57)

0328-26Cueva de Risco (58)

0328-27Sótano la Laja (59)

0328-28Sótano Rubio (60)

0328-29Sótano de Cabello Montoya (61)

0328-30Hoyo de Lopez (62)

0328-31Hoyo de Minita (63)

0328-32Cueva de la Agua Nueva (64)

0328-33Cueva de las Cruces (65)

0328-34Sótano Necio (66)

0329Gerald Moni's Mexican Cave Survey report forms for Xilitla area. These forms were the basis of the article Searching for the Big One at Xilitla, pages 93-108, AMCS Activities Newsletter 20, 1993. In addition to the data in the tables, location maps, and descriptions in the article, the forms include entrance coordinates. All the caves in this folder are in Querétaro. Numbers after the cave names are key to table and map location. sm = form includes sketch map. (part)

0329-01Cueva de Ezequiel Rubio (67)

0329-02Sótano de Colibrí (68, sm)

0329-03Cueva de Emigdio (69)

0329-04Sótano de Emigdio (70)

0329-05Sótano de Cana Azúcar (71)

0329-06Sótano de Hombre Muerto (72, sm)

0329-07Sótano de Manquez (73, sm)

0329-08Cueva de Llano (74, sm)

0329-09Sótano de Buhonero (75, sm)

0329-10Sótano de Eladio (76)

0329-11Hoyo de Burros Peliando (77)

0329-12Sótano de las Sótanos (78)

0329-13Gruta de Mario (79)

0329-14Gruta de Sheriff (80)

0329-15Sótano de la Yerbabuena (81, sm) (includes updated form 1994)

0329-16Sótano de Naranjo (82, sm)

0329-17Sótano de Pierna Largo (83)

0329-18Gruta de Arana Negra (84)

0329-19Sótano de las Ciénegas (85)

0329-20Sótano de Luiz (86)

0329-21Sótano de Nido (87)

0329-22Sótano del Hoyas (88)

0330Gerald Moni's Mexican Cave Survey report forms for Xilitla area. These forms were the basis of the article Searching for the Big One at Xilitla, pages 93-108, AMCS Activities Newsletter 20, 1993. In addition to the data in the tables, location maps, and descriptions in the article, the forms include entrance coordinates. All the caves in this folder are in Querétaro. Numbers after the cave names are key to table and map location. sm = form includes sketch map. (part)

0331-02package of miscellaneous correspondence with Gerald Moni re article on Xilitla area

0331-03November 22-26, 1993

0331-04December 20-30, 1993

0331-05March 25 through April 7, 1994

0331-06November 21-25, 1994

0331-07December 16, 1994, through January 2, 1995

0331-08February 19-24, 1995

0331-09November 20-24, 1995

0331-10December 17, 1995, through January 1, 1996

0332Gerald Moni's Mexican Cave Survey report forms for Xilitla area. These forms were the basis of the article Ridgewalking in Xilitla, pages 117-133, AMCS Activities Newsletter 22, 1997. In addition to the data in the tables, location maps, and descriptions in the article, the forms include entrance coordinates. All the caves in this folder are in Querétaro. Numbers after the cave names are key to table and map location. sm = form includes sketch map. (part)

0332-01Sótano de Roteo (113)

0332-02Cueva de Jorge (114)

0332-03Cueva de Canica Verde (115)

0332-04Cueva de Ledesma (116)

0332-05Sótano de Melchicedeg (117)

0332-06Cueva de Primitivo (118)

0332-07Sótano Chirrido (119)

0332-08Sótano del Tule (120)

0332-09Cueva de Caritina (121)

0332-10Sótano Dulce (122)

0332-11Sótano de Aroadio (123)

0332-12Cueva de Pablo Tomás (124)

0332-13Sótano de Marquéz (125)

0332-14Cueva de Cruces (126, sm)

0332-15Cueva de Cipriano (127)

0332-16Sótano de Anizeto (128)

0332-17Sótano de Catarino (129)

0332-18Cueva de Marsigos (130)

0332-19Sótano de Cilantrón (131)

0332-20Sótano de Argumento (132)

0332-21Sótano de Galina Muerto (133)

0332-22Sótano de La Yesca (134)

0332-23Sótano de Abril (135)

0332-24Cueva El Tigre (136)

0333Gerald Moni's Mexican Cave Survey report forms for Xilitla area. These forms were the basis of the article Ridgewalking in Xilitla, pages 117-133, AMCS Activities Newsletter 22, 1997. In addition to the data in the tables, location maps, and descriptions in the article, the forms include entrance coordinates. All the caves in this folder are in Querétaro. Numbers after the cave names are key to table and map location. sm = form includes sketch map. (part)

0333-01Sótano de Oso Rosado (137)

0333-02Cueva de Sarro (138)

0333-03Cueva de Crucitas (139)

0333-04Cueva Queso Suizo (140)

0333-05Cueva de Requesón (141)

0333-06Cueva de Tlacuilola (142)

0333-07Sótano de Moises (143)

0333-08Sótano de Lorrdetto (144)

0333-09Sótano Brillante (145)

0333-10Cueva de Tarántula (146)

0333-11Sótano de Graciella (147)

0333-12Sótano de Victorino (148, sm)

0333-13Sótano de San Onobre (149)

0333-14Sótano de Piedra Parada (150, sm)

0333-15Cueva de Geraldo (151)

0333-16Sótano de Cama (not in article)

0334Gerald Moni's Mexican Cave Survey report forms for Xilitla area. These forms were the basis of the article Ridgewalking in Xilitla, pages 117-133, AMCS Activities Newsletter 22, 1997. In addition to the data in the tables, location maps, and descriptions in the article, the forms include entrance coordinates. All the caves in this folder are in Hidalgo. Numbers after the cave names are key to table and map location. (part)

0334-01Cueva de Alvaro (152)

0334-02Sótano de Tres Ojos (153)

0334-03Sótano Reseco (154)

0334-04Sótano de la Guadaña (155)

0334-05Cueva de El Rayo (156)

0334-06Sótano Tapado (157)

0334-07Cueva de la Cuesta (158)

0334-08Cueva de los Pretiles (159)

0334-09Cueva de Xochicoalco (160)

0334-10Sótano de Lonisio (161)

0334-11Sótano de Cerro Grande (162)

0334-12Sótano Bailando (163)

0334-13Sótano las Vidas (164)

0334-14Cueva de Marcelina (165)

0334-15Cueva de Chalahuite (166)

0334-16Sótano de Dometilo (167)

0334-17Cueva de Caracol (168)

0334-18Cueva de Trejo (169)

0335Gerald Moni's Mexican Cave Survey report forms for Xilitla area. These forms were the basis of the article Ridgewalking in Xilitla, pages 117-133, AMCS Activities Newsletter 22, 1997. In addition to the data in the tables, location maps, and descriptions in the article, the forms include entrance coordinates. All the caves in this folder are in San Luis Potosí. Numbers after the cave names are key to table and map location. sm = form includes sketch map. (part)

0335-01Cueva de Cuguixtle (170)

0335-02Cueva de Sooyamiches (171)

0335-03Cueva de Arena (172)

0335-04Sótano de Dar Gracias (173)

0335-05Hoya de Guadalupe (174)

0335-06Cueva de Guadalupe (175)

0335-07Cueva de Golondrinas (176)

0335-08Sótano de Octufu (177)

0335-09Cueva de Mejia (178)

0335-10Sótano de Mejia (179)

0335-11Cueva del Caracol (180)

0335-12Cueva de Muchas Columnas (181)

0335-13Cueva de Anita (182)

0335-14Cueva de Vallo (183)

0335-15Cueva de Santiago (184)

0335-16Cueva de Infierno (185)

0335-17Pozo de Deseos (186)

0335-18Cueva de Muhuatz (not in article)

0335-19Seotano de Mirro (not in article)

0336

0336-01Condesa Restaurant (Valles) caver logbook, June 1978 - August 1980. Scans of the book are on D295.

0338-02article Eolianites and Karst Development in the Mayan Riviera, Mexico, by Kristen Kelley, et al., pp 88-99 in Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and Other Carbonate Regions, reprinted in on-line journal Speleogenesis and Evolution of Karst Aquifers, number 11, 2011, pp 32-39. Printout from web.

0338-03article The Role of Cenotes in the Social History of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, by Paul Munro and Maria Melo Zurita, to appear in Environment and History, v. 17, 2011 (probably, would be number 4). printout of PDF draft, lacking page numbers.

0344registration packet for 5th Annual Maya Symposium and Workshop, Tulane University, February 15–17, 2008, "Sacred Centoes, Hidden Caverns, Rituals, Beliefs, and Everyday Life Relating to Caves and Cenotes among the Maya." poster, program and abstracts, bibliography, and miscellaneous other material.

0345dispatches from the field during the Cheve 2004 expedition (Oaxaca), sent to National Geographic Society via sat phone. Basis for article in AMCS Activities Newsletter 28. (part)

0345-15February 29-March 5. shopping and politics 29th, by Bill Stone; still in town on March 1, by Bill Stone; hike to highlands above El Ocotal on 2nd, by Andi Hunter; preparing for Sumidaro Aguacate on the 3rd, by Andi Hunter;more digging in Sumidaro Barranca Estrella on 4th, by Maarten Poot; end of Barranca Estrella camp, by Tjerk Dalhuisen; Osto de Verro Voludo #2, by Tjerk Dalhuisen ?

0345-16March 6-9. departure from Barranca Estrella base camp, 6th; departure of some for El Ocotal high camp and others visit Sumidero Aguacate, 7th; logistics problems with high camp and preps for Aguacate underground camp, 8th; burro train to high camp and more preps for Aguacate, 9th, all by Bill Stone

0349-05ms of article Politics and Exploration in the Himilaya of Speleology, by Andrea Hunter, about Cheve 2004, Oaxaca; whether ever published anywhere unknown. File is on D182 or D183 (Activities Newsletter 28 archive disks)

0350Cheve 2004 expedition pre-trip material (Oaxaca)

0350-01e-mail from Bill Stone October 16, 2003, first announcement

0350-02e-mail from Bill Stone January 5, 2004: final dates, general information and directions for participants, checklist of personal and group gear, personnel list

0367-03printout of article Use of Resistivity Measurements to Detect Urban Caves in Mexico City and to Assess the Related Hazard, by R. G. Antonio-Carpio et al.,Natural Hazards and Earth Systems Sciences 4:541-547 (2004) (PDF on disk 319)

0372-06web material on Mexpé 2011 expedition of the Société Québécoise de Spéléologie. Puebla. 20-page Spanish version plus 10 pages from the French version giving daily diary of the expedition. Color printouts from web, PDF on D327.

0375original English translations of text of AMCS Bulletin 22, Return to the Forgotten World. Files are on the bulletin 22 archive disk. The "parts" listed below do not appear as such in the published version, but were in the original Spanish version.

0375-01front matter through page 2 of chapter I

0375-02parts 3-6 of chapter I

0375-03parts 1-5 of chapter II

0375-04parts 6-8 of chapter II

0375-05part 9 of chapter II and chapter III

0375-06chapter IV

0375-07chapter IV mistakenly translated by second person, not used

0375-08chapter V

0375-06chapter VI

0375-07chapters VII and VIII

0375-08chapter IX

0376miscellaneous AMCS Bulletin 22 stuff

0376-01list of locations for photographs (scans on D324, D325)

0376-02e-mails regarding failed first attempt at getting English translation

0376-03miscellaneous e-mails with translator Roberto Botello

0376-04e-mails from translator Roberto Botello re sources of English quotes

0382Activities Newsletter 35: article Ixtacxochitla, Puebla, 2008-2011, by Ramsés Miranda Gamboa et al. The cave maps mostly exists in two forms, the original form submitted, and the revised form submitted, often with revised cave name, as reduced for printing. All are black and white printouts, though most cave maps were printed in color. The original name is given in parentheses.

0386-01Tlamaqui e-mail list post by Gustavo Vela re GSAB 2012 expedition to Puebla, with translation into English by Yazmin Avila and Jim Kennedy. Not used in Mexico News because contains errors and better report on the trip found later.

0387-02web promotional release by Jessica Festa "Exploring the Underground Caves of Rio Secreto in Mexico," 2012, with color contact sheets of photos. (Photos not used in Mexico News) Quintana Roo

0387-03Tlamaqui e-mail list post December 2011 by Gustavo Vela on attempt to connect Rio Secreto with Cueva Dino, Quintana Roo, and color contact sheet of photos with the post. Also black-and-white printout of photo prepared for printing, with caption info.

0387-05press release in Spanish about article in Journal of Parasitology "Maternal Care in the Soft Tick Antricola marginatus" by Marcelo Bahia Labruna et al. Includes Google translation of the press release and the abstract from the journal's web site. Yucatán

0387-06e-mail about strange formations in Cenote Zapote in Quintana Roo, with color contact sheet of photos by Andreas Matthes.

0391pages of AMCS Bulletin 7, Caves of the San Juan Plateau, disbound for scanning to PDF file (Querétaro)

0392loose map plates for AMCS Bulletin 7, Caves of the San Juan Plateau. These are versions reduced to 11 by 17 inches as photocopy masters for assembling complete bulletins after maps plates out of print. They lack the original borders. (The borders are included in the versions in the PDF file of bulletin 7.)

0393-01Report to the Government of Mexico, The 2003 Sistema Cheve Expedition, by Bill Stone, Yvonne Droms, and Nancy Pistole, December 8, 2003. Includes Cueva Charco 2003 and description of goals of 2004 expedition. Oaxaca

0397-14survey data for Sumidero de la Hondonada, Chiapas: transcribed data and original sketches as photocopies. Also surface survey from resurgence to Hondonada, photocopy with improvements and annotations (same as part of 0397-03)

0400-04black-and-white negatives, including those for the prints in 0400-05

0400-05black-and-white enlargements of two of the negs in 0400-04, plus a small print of one of the same shots.

0401material from 1970 Canadian survey of Cueva de Santa Cruz, Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca, received from Chris Lloyd, 2012

0401-01some original survey notes, loose pages from notebook, stapled together

0401-02survey data and sketches, probably not original in-cave version. Sheets cut from notebook, stapled together

0401-03computer-generated line plot of plan

0401-04computer-generated line plot of extended elevation, with pencil sketch added on back

0402data on Canadian surveys of Sótano de San Agustín and Cueva de San Agustín and some other area caves, Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca, received from Chris Lloyd, 2012 (part)

0402-01plan and profile map of Sótano de San Agustín, large folded printed map (same as included in Canadian Caver #3)

0402-02computer plot of data labeled Cueva de San Agustín, plus two different ink drafts of plan of part of the cave, with no obvious correlation between the plot and the maps (which agree with the published version for C. de SA)

0402-03computer plotmade January 20, 1969, of data labeled Cueva de San Agustín, with pencil draft of map superimposed

0402-04computer plot of data March 6, 1972, plan of some cave, labeled Sótano de San Agustín

0402-05computer plot of data for Cueva de San Agustín made January 15, 1969.

0402-06computer listing of plot data for caves near Huautla, made January 10, 1979, including surface survey, Cueva de San Agustín, Sótano de San Agustín, Carlota, and Río Iglesia (appears to be plot data, not survey data)

0402-07thick computer listing of processed survey data labeled San Agustín but appears to actually be Castleguard Cave in western Canada, dated February 1, 1970

0403data on Canadian surveys of Sótano de San Agustín and Cueva de San Agustín and some other area caves, Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca, received from Chris Lloyd, 2012 (part)

0403-01original survey notes, "Cave on side of dolina de Río Iglesia" and/or Cueva de Agua Colorado (Cueva de Sulrana or Sultana?), December 24, 1970, loose pages from notebook, stapled together

0403-02original survey book, Cueva de San Agustín, undated

0403-03survey notebook (coming apart),Cueve de San Agustín, plus some loose sheets of calculations

0413photocopies from the magazine of the British Cave Research Association, variously called the BCRA Bulletin, Caves and Caving, and Speleology. Most of these are just bibliographic notes in summaries of exchange publications.

0413-02uncredited note about recent work in Sótano de San Agustín to -760 meters (Oaxaca), Cueva de Diamante to -446 meters (Tamaulipas) and La Grieta to -420 meters (Oaxaca). BCRA Bulletin 16, May 1977, p. 8. photocopy

0413-03note crediting Wil Howie about new depth of Sótano de San Agustin (Oaxaca) of 859 meters to a sump and bottoming of Sumidero Yochib (Chiapas) at 250 meters. BCRA Bulletin 17, August 1977, p. 5. photocopy

0413-08note that NSS News, September 1980, contains an article on the connection Li Nita to San Agustín, giving Sisteam Nuautla new depth of 1220 meters. Caves and Caving 11, February 1981, p. 25. photocopy

0413-09note about planned expedition of British cavers to Mexico in 1982. Caves and Caving 11, February 1981, p. 36 photocopy

0413-10note about planned expediton of British cavers to Chiapas in 1982. Caves and Caving 15, February 1982, p. 31. photocopy

0413-11 note about British plans for Chiapas in November 1982. Caves and Caving 16, May 1982, p. 30. Photocopy

0413-26states that a British group had been promised a £700 grant for a Mexico expedion to Chipas in early 1990. Caves and Caving 48, summer 1990, p. 42. photocopy

0413-27mentions discussion of "bad air" in Subterráneo 6 (1990, from Guadalajara), and also mention in the same issue of a caver being shot driving to Chiapas. Caves and Caving 51, spring 1991, p. 42-43. photocopy

0413-46mention that Spelunca 98, June 2005, contains an article about French cave diving in the Yucatan. Speleology 6, April 2006, p. 32. photocopy

0413-47 summarizes info about the bee attack in Pozo de Gavilán, Nuevo León, that appeared in American Caving Accidents (NSS News 63(9 part 2), September 2005. Also mention that NSS News 63(12), December 2005, contains an article on the descent and survey of Sótano de la Culebra, Querétaro. Speleology 6, April 2006, p. 37. photocopy

0418-07article Five Years of Speleological Investigations in the Karst of the Sierra Mixteca-Aapoteca, South of Tehuacán, Mexico, by Francesco Sauro, Leonardo Piccini, and Marco Mecchia, reformated for La Venta web site from Proceedings of 15th International Congress of Speleology, 2007. black-and-white printout. Puebla

0429-11mention, in French and German, of dive in terminal siphon in Sótano de San Agustín, Oaxaca, in Stalactite 33(2)81, 1983. photocopy

0429-12mention that two groups of Mexican cavers, Sociedad Mexicana de Exploraciones Subterráneas and Grupo de Espeleología de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México have explored various caves in Mexico, in Speleo Flash 137, p. 17, September 1983. photocopy

0431photocopies from Spelunca, Fédération Française de Spéléologie, in French. Many of these are brief notes from the "news from abroad" section. Note that the issue designations changes from year-number to issue number in 1981. Additional items from Spelunca are in folder 0452.

0454-01William Elliott's 2004 draft of Chronicle of Speleology in the Sierra de Guatemala, Tamaulias, Mexico. .docx file is on D369.

0454-02article Temperature Preference Responses of Some Aquatic, Cave-adapted Crustaceans from Central Texas and Northeastn México, by William Elliott and Robert Mitchell. International Journal of Speleology, v. 5, pp. 171-189, 1973. printout from web.

0454-03article New Locality Records for Rhagidia from Mexican and American Caves, by William Elliott and R. W. Strandtmann. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, v. 44, pp. 468-475, 1971. printout from web

0458package of material, mainly handwritten letters from William Elliott to Robert Mitchell during Elliott's summer of 1969 researching cave fish in Mexico (Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosí). All items are numbered, but only numbers of items other than such hardwritten letters are included in the list below. Letters are from the files of Bob Mitchell, courtesy of daughter Sharon Mitchell. Scans are on D373.

0458-01printout of spreadsheet prepared by Bill Elliott April 2013 as diary of 1969 trip, including inventory of the letters (numbers in AMCS archive added)

0458-02cover from large envelope from Elliott to Mitchell with small cartoon about plane crash

0458-03typewritten letter

0458-04 undated note (1969)

0458-11 typewritten note from Mitchell to Elliott, carbon copy

0458-26form notifying Elliott of appointment as employee during July 1969

0458-27blank sample time sheet

0458-28postcard to Mitchell from Elliott in Lovell, Wyoming, June 19, 1969

0458-29letter Elliott to Mitchell May 19, 1970

0458-305-page letter Elliott to Mitchell, August 2, 1970 (Texas)

0458-31postcard Elliott to Mitchell, August 3, 1970

0458-32postcard Elliott to Mitchell, June 13, 1970

0458-33postcard Elliott to Mitchell, June 22, 1970

0458-34letter from Mitchell endorsing research proposal by Elliott, November 19, 1970, carbon copy of typescript.

0459miscellaneous articles and maps from the Canadian Caver. Printouts of scans or photocopies. Scans of some of this material are on disk D381.

0465-01article Ground-Penetrating Radar, Resistivity, and Spontaneous Potential Investigations of a Contaminated Aquifer near Cancún, Mexico, by Philip Carpenter, Ryan Adam, and Melissa Lenczewski, from Proceedings of the 13th Multidiscplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Envinronmental Impacts of Karst, 2013, pages 231-237, Quintana Roo. printout from PDF.

0465-02letter from Tim Allen and Pete Ward about abandonment of gear in Sótano de San Agustín, Oaxaca, by the 1994 expedition. Submitted to NSS News and AMCS June 1, 2013. Includes e-mail from Tim Allen.

0476-09article on cleanup of cave in Sanahcat, Yucatán, with aim of encouraging tourism, printout from web site posted 7 May 2013, with Google translation

0476-10weekly posts by Gustavo Vela to tlamaqui e-mail list about progress during Tzontze expedition 2013, Puebla, with Google translations. Not used in Mexico News because we have article on the trip.

0477-10post to tlamaqui e-mail list by Gustavo Vela about his article in México Desconocido, October 2012) about GBAB explorations in Tepetzala, Puebla, with black-and-white printout of first page image

0477-11color contact sheet of photos for Gustavo Vela's trip to Zimapan, Hidalgo (none were published in Mexico News)

0478Activities Newsletter 36 Mexico News source material (part)

0478-01program for XI Mexican Congress of Speleology, printout from web

0479-05color printouts of photos submitted by David Cilia for possible cover use, and black-and-white printouts of the two selected for use in Mexico News, with caption info. Ilama Coatl-Tomabak system, Puebla

0479-06plan and profile line plots of Sistema J2 showing 2013 additions, black-and-white printouts, draft and final version

0480-09press release printout from web Mayor Discovery in Cueva Rey Condoy [Oaxaca], from the Mesoamerica Center at University of Texas.

0480-10Tim Allen progress report by e-mail to Bill Mixon re 2013 Huautla expedition, with criticism of trash left by the 1994 expedition

0480-11two posts by Bill Steele to texascavers e-mail list re Huautle 2013 expedition results, with comment by Mark Minton about the calculation of new depth. not used in Mexico News.

0481Activities Newsletter 36 Mexico News source material (part)

0481-01trip report by Gustavo Vela on tlamaqui e-mail list 15 Febuary 2013 about trip to caves in southern Yucatan Peninsula, with Google translation and color contact sheets of photos. Not used in Mexico News because state unknown.

0481-02original ms news about Joya Jonda, San Luis Potosí

0481-03 plan map and profile line plot, Joya Jonda, San Luis Potosí, draft and final

0500William Elliott cave survey books, Mexico and Texas. (Book #1 is 0447-01.) Scans of all the pages are on D396 and for book #1 also on D364. Text below was written on the covers by Elliott in 2013. plus other material from Bill Elliott, July 2013 (part)

0500-01#2 Mexico 1970-71

0500-02#3 Sierra de Guatemala 1971 and Sierra de El Abra

0500-03 #4 Mexico 1971-1974

0500-04#5 Mexico 1972-88 (prinout of scan of pasted-in table of contents is 0500-06)

0500-05#6 Mexico Sierra de Guatemala 1979-1980

0500-06printout of table of contents of 0500-04 prepared by Logan McNatt

0508-04article The End of the World Expedition, by Chris Lloyd, Canadian Caver 78, spring 2013, pp. 9-15. Quintana Roo. photocopy

0509

0509-01article Mexico See Cash in Famed Caverns: Developer Buys the Right to Turn a National Park into a High-Tech Attraction, by Esther Schrader, San Jose (California) Mercury, late June 1995. printout of text in e-mail message. Cacahuamilpa, Guerrero.

0509-02lists of long and deep caves and deep pits of Mexico by Peter Sprouse, April 1999. printout from web

0509-09article The Walls Are Alive: Deep in a Cave, Scientists Glimpse a Strange New Biology, by Charles Petit, U.S. New and World Report, February 9, 1998, pp 59-60. Cueva de Villa Luz, Tabasco. tear sheet

0510-07paper The Blind Fish of La Cueva Chica: The Aquarium Cave Expedition to Mexico Made a Surprising Discovery and Came Back with a Habitat Group and a Motion Picture, by William Bridges, Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society 43(3)74-97 plus map. printout from PDF of scans on disk D398. San Luis Potosí.

0511-03article Another Excursion South of the Border: Easter 1003 in Xilitla, by Pete Hall, Red Rose Cave and Pothole Club Newsletter 30(3)6-10, Decembr 1993. San Luis Potosí. reduced photocopy

0511-04The Xilitla Region: An Annotated Bibliography, by John Ganter, August 1986, published by the author for the Mexpeleo 1989. 12 pages. San Luis Potosí.

0511-05article The Gerald Moni Xilitla Expedition 1993, or "When All Else Fails, Beg!", by Chris Hudson, Speleo-Themes: The Newsletter of the Huntsville Grotto, January 1994, p. 4–8. San Luis Potosí. photocopy or original pages

0514-02letter from Tim Allen and Pete Ward of the British Huautla expedition 2013 criticizing the junk left in Sótano de San Agustín by the 1984 expedition, meant for the NSS News, not published (Oaxaca)

0518-03article Karst Features in Maya Region of Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, by Robert Shrock, Proceeedings of the Indiana Academy of Science, vol 55, pp. 111-116. printout

0518-04article The Vachoniidae—A New Family of False Scorpions: Two New Species from Caves in Yucatan, by Joseph Chamberlin, Bulletin of the University of Utah, v. 38, no. 7, 1947 (Biological Series v. 10, no. 4). printout

0523-01article Middle American Cave-Crickets and Allies. I. The Group Phoberopodes, with a Review of the Phallic Structures of the Ceuthophilinae (Orthoptera, Saltatoria: Ensifera: Rhaphidophoridae), by Theodore Hubbell, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, v. 374, 1977 (Quaderno n. 171. Subterranean Fauna of Mexico, Part III, Further Results of the Italian Zoological Missions to Mexico, Sponsored by the National Academy of Lincei (1973-1975)). pages 275-324. offprint.

0523-02article On Centipeds and Millipeds from Mexican Caves, by Ralph Chamberlin, Bulletin of the University of Utah, v. 33, no. 4, November 1942, pp. 1-20. offprint

0523-03catalog of publications of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia for sale by the University of Pittsburgh, printed from web August 2004.

0527-07Cave of Loltun, Yucatan: Report of Explorations by the Museum, 1888-89 and 1890-91, by Edward H. Thompson, Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, vol. 1 no. 2, 1897. printout from web

0534-02interior maps from book Beyond the Deep, tear sheets for scanning

0534-03plan map Sótano de las Calenturas, Tamaulipas. folder sheet

0534-04post to tlamaqui e-mail list by Elsi Lara, February 17, 2014. Paper presented at XIConreso Nacional de Espeleología 2013 on exploration in Yucatán state by Grupo Chicomoztoc. Spanish printout and Google translation of text.

0534-05publication containing the contents of part of AMCS Bulletin 1, Caves of the Inter-American Highway. Text and road logs identical in content but not format to the book, maps photocopies from the book, total approx 30 pp. Purpose of this unknown; was on legal size paper before cutting down for archives

0534-06survey notes Sótano de Abernathy, by Bill Elliott, David Honea, and Miles Abernathy, January 30, 1969. San Luis Potosí. grayscale printout from scans. Color scans are on D411.

0543-04weekly posts on Tlamalqui e-mail list during the Tlanexilotl 2014 expedition by Gustavo Vela, April 3, April 10, April 17, April 24. printouts of Spanish originals (except April 24) and Google translations. Puebla

0543-05underwater caves of Quintana Roo longer than 1500 meters, printout of table from QRSS April 2014

0543-06cave systems including dry portions in Quintana Roo longer that 1500 meters, printout of table from QRSS April 2014

0543-07table of Mexican caving clubs with contact information by Franco Attolini, June 2011

0554-09abstract Speleogeneis by the Sulfidic Springs at Northern Sierra de Chiapas, Mexico, Based on Their Water Chemistry, by Laura Rosales-Lagarde and Penelope Boston, in Hypogene Cave Morphologies, Karst Waters Institute Special Publication 18, p 101. Tabasco

0554-10artice Journey to the Centre of the Earth(...Well, Almost!), British Explorer's Team Set New Record after Going almost a Mile Undergroung in Mexican Caves, by Olivia Williams, Mail Online, 20 June 2013. 17 page printout from web. Oaxaca

0555-04abstract Cave and Karst Management on the Reserva de la Biosfera Selva del Ocote, Chiapas, Mexico: U.S. Forest Service International Programs Exchange 2010-2013, by Johanna Kovarik. Program with abstracts 20th National Cave and Karst Management Symposium, p. 30

0555-05abstract Challenges and Opportunities for the Management of Cueva de Villa Luz, Tabasco, Mexico, by Laura Rosales-Lagarde et al. Program with abstracts 20th National Cave and Karst Management Symposium, p. 57

0558-03bulletin 25, San Agustín 2013 Expedition, list of potential photos with caption queries sent to Chris Jewell (Oaxaca). See also 0558-04

0558-04reply to 0558-03

0558-05color printout of Sótano del Tigre map (San Luis Potosí) draft version 3, June 30, 2014, by Bill Elliott, together with color printouts of two photos of Tigre. Includes e-mail of info from Elliott

0559-01color thumbnails and caption information for Elliot Stahl's photos of 2013 Huautla expedition. Files for the photos are on D439.

0559-02color thumbnails and caption information for Elliot Stahl's photos of 2013 J2/Last Bash expedition. Files for the photos are on D439.

0559-03report The Beginnings of Complex Society in the Puuc Region: Survey and Exploration at Xcoch (Cave), Yucatan, Mexico, final report to the National Geographic Society Waitt Program (W62-09), by Michael P. Smyth, et al. (no date, ~2010). Printout from web

0559-04Preliminary Investigation of a Ritual Cave Site in the Puuc Region of Yucatán, Mexico: Actun Xcoch, MA thesis by Eric Weaver, 2011. Printout from web.

0565-03article In Deep: The Dark and Dangerous World of Extreme Caving, by Burkhard Bilger, grayscale printout from web site of The New Yorker, April 21, 2014. This is the web version of 0539-01; .webarchive and PDF files are on D421. (May be duplicate of 0539-02.) J2/Last Bash, Oaxaca.

0567-07article Cave Explorers to Try for Record, unsigned AP dispatch, photocopy of newspaper article source and date unknown (Houston Post?). plan to link Nita Nanta with Sistema Huautla, Oaxaca. Another version of the same dispatch, with the same photo, appeared in The Sunday Express-News, San Antonio, November 29, 1981, page 2-B.

0572-11article The Travel is Frightful, but the Pain is Devine, by Bob Woodward, Outside, Novembeer 1988, includes description (subtitled If It Doesn't Kill You, It Can Be Fun) of cave diving Quintana Roo on p. 103. tear sheet

0572-12material from Speleologia number 29, 1993, on Quintana Roo: line plot of Sistema Naranjal, list of longest underwater caves in QR, map of Cenote Sac Actun.

0586-06article Recent Explorations in Pozo Verde, Mexico: The Complete Account, by Marion Smith, Birmingham Grotto News, March 1988. Sótano de Ocotempa, Puebla. no page numbers; may be copy of original ms